A walking person has more choices to exert physically, burn calories and reduce weight. For a wheelchair user, choices are comparatively lesser. Being in a wheelchair, it becomes very important not to overweight yourself, to stay active and independent. Rule of thumb for reducing weight is to take lesser calories…
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The difficult circumstances, pain and grief after spinal cord injury often leads to depression. Neither It’s just a feeling down, nor a state of mind, but a disease, that needs proper care and attention. Depression after spinal cord injury, effects every aspect of your life in negative manner. It may…
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You were living a full active life, flying high in career or were in pursuit of your dreams, then an accident occurred resulting in spinal cord injury which changed your life completely! You face a lot of new problems, your dependence on others increase, your limitations increase and you feel…
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Today if you take care of yourself you can live a lengthy life, like a normal person, after spinal cord injury . But situations were not that good if you go back in history. Before world War II and the advent of antibiotics, lives of people suffering from spinal cord…
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How many times have people in wheelchair been treated with sympathy and pity? But if you go a bit deeper and study their lives, you will find some amazing qualities to be learnt from them. You will find stories of no surrender in battle against adversity and will find wheelchair…
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Catheter selection for Quadriplegics In article about bladder management, we discussed in detail about different types of catheter and their pros and cons. In this article, we will discuss about suitability of various catheter for quadriplegics. When selecting quadriplegic catheter for bladder management, quadriplegics should look at two aspects: First…
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In part 1, we discussed in detail about importance of independence in Bed to wheelchair transfer techniques to live active life after spinal cord injury, and some general rules and techniques for easy and safe transfer. In this article, we will read about Bed to wheelchair transfer techniques of paraplegics…
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After spinal cord injury as you cannot stand on your feet, so you spend majority of your time sitting. To live an active life, spinal cord injury transfers between various surfaces is required, for example transfer between: wheelchair and bed wheelchair and commode chair wheel chair and car seat Getting…
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